Nipponese Nightmare PTO (id:#57356)

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Zamami, Karama Islands, southwest of Okinawa 1945-03-27 (5 others)

Overview:

On Zamami, advance elements of the 1st Battalion, 305th Regimental Combat Team pushed up into the high ground during the afternoon without closing with the enemy. Fro midnight until dawn of the next day, however, groups of Japanese armed with rifles, pistols, and sabers tried to break into the American perimeter. Company C bore the brunt of the attack, repulsing nine local thrusts supported by automatic weapons and mortars in a series of night fire fights that at times into savage hand-to-hand combat.

Defender: American (Co. C, 1st Battalion, 305th RCT, 77th Infantry Division)  

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